"Saturdays 22 and 29 June, new style. Upon our arrival in Paris, rehearsals commenced. The orchestra, which proved to be excellent, the men being amiable and painstaking, had been borrowed from [[Édouard Colonne|Colonne]]. Their playing in the concerts was fine... The success was considerable, with plenty of applause, but the attendance was not large. ""Night on Bald Mountain"" was performed at the second concert, on 29 June 1889, where it followed [[Alexander Borodin|Borodin]]'s 'Polovtsian Dances' and 'Polovtsian March' from ""[[Prince Igor]]"" in the second half of the program. Rimsky-Korsakov later mentions another performance of the piece, taking place on 25"
"and Polovtsian settings with their distinctive musical atmospheres. Despite this justification, there is reason to maintain the traditional sequence. Act II contains most of the numbers for which the work is known today, with Igor's brooding and impassioned aria (""Oh give me freedom"") at the center, flanked by Vladimir's cavatina and Konchak's aria, not to mention the rousing conclusion provided by the ""Polovtsian Dances."" Moving its wealth of arias and dances from the center of the work to near the beginning may weaken the opera's structure. The ""Mariinsky edition"" makes other important changes and additions to the score. Although much"
"are performed by mixed dancers, while others, such as ""Cossack's Cavalry Dance"", are performed by male dancers only. The ballet is under the direction of Lev Nikolaevich Kulikov National Artist of Russia, the main ballet master, and maintains the heights of choreographic art with honour. The priority in its repertoire is taken by the military compositions: ""Matroskaya barynya"", ""Kazachiya cavalry plyaska"", ""Festive march"", ""Invitation to dance"" and others. The ballet performs a lot of Russian folk dances. The classical repertoire contains ""Poloveckie plyasky"" from the opera ""Prince Igor"" written by Alexander Borodin. This is from our dance classics, but we"
"him as he is Yaroslavna's brother and Igor's brother-in-law. The boyars refuse. The argument is interrupted by the sight of flames and the sound of crying women. Some of the boyars flee; some join the battle, others guard the Princess. They call the attack God's judgment. ""Evening in the Polovtsian Camp"" Polovtsian maidens sing comparing love to a flower that droops in the heat of the day and is revived by night. They dance together (""Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens""). Konchakovna joins in the singing hoping that her own lover will join her soon (""Konchakovna's Cavatina""). The Russian prisoners arrive"
"половецких девушек""]: presto, 6/8, F major; it is placed directly after the ""Chorus of the Polovtsian Maidens"" which opens the act and is followed by ""Konchakovna's Cavatina"". The dances proper appear at the end of the Act as an uninterrupted single number in several contrasting sections listed as follows (basic themes are indicated with letters in brackets and notated in the accompanying illustration) ""Theme from No. 8"" <score vorbis>\relative c{\key f \major \time 6/8 c4\p( bes8 a bes c bes a bes g a bes) a( g f g f e f e d d4) r8 \bar ""||""}</score> ""Themes from"
"the dumka, the polka, the sousedská, the skočná, the mazurka, the odzemek, the špacírka, the kolo and the polonaise. A full performance of each opus typically takes approximately 40 minutes. The dances of this opus are sometimes numbered separately from the first and sometimes as numbers 9–16. Most editions give both numbers. Slavonic Dances The Slavonic Dances () are a series of 16 orchestral pieces composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1878 and 1886 and published in two sets as Op. 46 and Op. 72 respectively. Originally written for piano four hands, the ""Slavonic Dances"" were inspired by Johannes Brahms's own"
"Feodor Chaliapin as Galitsky and Maria Nikolaevna Kuznetsova as Yaroslavna. London saw the same production in 1914 conducted by Thomas Beecham, again with Chaliapin as Galitsky. In 1915 the United States premiere took place at the Metropolitan Opera, but staged in Italian and conducted by Giorgio Polacco. The first performance in English was at Covent Garden on 26 July 1919, with Miriam Licette as Yaroslavna. In January and February 2009 there was a production at the Aalto Theatre by the Essen Opera. While some aspects of the production may have been unusual, one critic noted that ""placing the (Polovtsian) Dances"
"Pulcinella (ballet) Pulcinella is a one-act neoclassical ballet by Igor Stravinsky based on an 18th-century play ""Quartre Polichinelles semblables"" (""Four identical Pulcinellas""). Pulcinella is a stock character originating from ""commedia dell'arte"". The ballet premiered at the Paris Opera on 15 May 1920 under the baton of Ernest Ansermet. The dancer Léonide Massine created both the libretto and choreography, and Pablo Picasso designed the original costumes and sets. The ballet was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev. A performance of the work typically lasts 35 minutes. The ballet score was revised by Stravinsky in 1965. Diaghilev wanted a ballet based on an early"
"York included a worldwide HD broadcast. At the beginning of the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in February 2014, some of Borodin's music from this opera was played while an eclipsed sun, crescent-shaped, drifted across the upper levels of the center of the stadium, showing the basis of Russian history in the Prince Igor story. ""Note:"" ""Time"": The year 1185 ""Place"": The city of Putivl (prologue, Acts 1 and 4); a Polovtsian camp (Acts 2 and 3) Note: ""As discussed in this article, Borodin's final decision on the order of the first two acts is unclear."
"Apollo (ballet) Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as ""Apollo musagetes"", ""Apolo Musageta"", and ""Apollo, Leader of the Muses"") is a neoclassical ballet in two ""tableaux"" composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed in 1928 by twenty-four-year-old George Balanchine, with the composer contributing the libretto. The scenery and costumes were designed by André Bauchant, with new costumes by Coco Chanel in 1929. The scenery was executed by Alexander Shervashidze, with costumes under the direction of Mme. A. Youkine. The American patron of the arts Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge had commissioned the ballet in 1927 for a"
"through the White House receiving line. Sousa wrote it in 1886 at the request of President Chester A. Arthur who died before it was performed. Tchaikovsky's opera ""Eugene Onegin"", an adaption of Alexander Pushkin's novel in poetry verse, includes a famous polonaise. The polonaise is a Polish dance and is one of the five historic national dances of Poland. The others are the Mazurka (Mazur), Kujawiak, Krakowiak and Oberek, last three being old folk dances. Polonaise originated as a peasant dance known under various names – ""chodzony"" (""pacer""), ""chmielowy"" (""hops""), ""pieszy"" (""walker"") or ""wielki"" (""great""), recorded as early as the"
"of poetry; Polyhymnia, the muse of rhetoric; and Terpsichore, the muse of dance. The theme is: Apollon musagetes instructs the muses in their arts and leads them to Parnassus. The ballet is divided into two ""tableaux"": Balanchine shortened the title to ""Apollo"" in the 1950s, which Stravinsky himself came to prefer. Despite the popularly considered Balanchine-Stravinsky Greek link due to Balanchine's later work with Stravinsky scores in ""Orpheus"" and ""Agon"", the music for ""Apollo"" was commissioned by the Library of Congress. ""Orpheus"" may be considered a sequel to ""Apollo"" but ""Agon"" is a formal plotless ballet whose title in Greek"
"evokes a contest. Apollo (ballet) Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as ""Apollo musagetes"", ""Apolo Musageta"", and ""Apollo, Leader of the Muses"") is a neoclassical ballet in two ""tableaux"" composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed in 1928 by twenty-four-year-old George Balanchine, with the composer contributing the libretto. The scenery and costumes were designed by André Bauchant, with new costumes by Coco Chanel in 1929. The scenery was executed by Alexander Shervashidze, with costumes under the direction of Mme. A. Youkine. The American patron of the arts Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge had commissioned the ballet in"
"National Opera), ""La Traviata"", ""Turandot"" (Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera) and ""Manon Lescaut"" (Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, La Monnaie), ""The Flying Dutchman"" (Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera), and ""Iolanta and The Blebeard’s Castle"" (Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, Metropolitan Opera), ""Salome"" (Prague, Warsaw), and ""Tristan und Isolde"" (Mettropolitan Opera, Festpielhaus Baden-Baden, Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera). In March 2015 he premiered his piece ""Melancholia/Violetta Villas"" (""Melancholy/Violetta Villas""), a coproduction of the Capitol Theatre, Warsaw and Nowy Theatre, Łódź. Tomasz Wygoda Tomasz Wygoda is a Polish dancer, actor, choreographer, and educator. He graduated in history"
"Russian dancer Kira Bousloff. In 1975 he moved to the north coast of New South Wales. He founded the School of Arts at Southern Cross University. He died there in 1999. He wrote prolifically in many genres, but is best known for his 22 ballets and 11 operas. His best known works are ""The Beach Inspector and the Mermaid"" and ""Ophelia of the Nine Mile Beach"". Many of his works have Australian Indigenous connections: the ballets ""Euroka"" (1947), ""Brolga"" (1949), ""Boomerang"" (1951), ""The Whirlwind"" (1954) and ""Kooree and the Mists"" (1960) are all based on Aboriginal legends, with ""Kooree and"
"the opera by the composer. The first, ""Night on Mt. Triglav"", is an arrangement of Act 3. The second is a suite. This is a purely orchestral arrangement of Act III, restyled as a lengthy symphonic poem for orchestra. Approximately a half-hour in duration, the program in the printed score follows the action of the opera during the corresponding act of the opera. The Redowa appears in Act 1. The Lithuanian Dance and the Indian Dance are taken from Act 2, Scene 5. The cortège is the well-known ""Procession of the Nobles"" (, literally, ""Procession of the Princes""), and appears"
"Khovanshchina Khovanshchina (, ""Hovánščina"", sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair; since the ending -ščina is pejorative) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources. The opera was unfinished and unperformed when the composer died in 1881. Like Mussorgsky's earlier ""Boris Godunov"", ""Khovanshchina"" deals with an episode in Russian history, first brought to the composer's attention by his friend the critic Vladimir Stasov. It concerns the rebellion of Prince Ivan Khovansky, the Old Believers, and"
"or used in subsequent performances of the opera. The premiere production included a ballet at the end of Act I, ""Un bassà turco"" (A Turkish Pasha), and one at the end of Act II, ""Pantomimo tra Pulcinella, Arlecchino e Coviello"" (Pantomime between Pulcinella, Harlequin and Coviello). The opera was also preceded by a festive dance while a cantata was sung in honor of King Ferdinand I (also composed by Mysliveček). The ballets were choreographed by their leading dancer, Gennaro Magri. The opera was revived in Siena in spring of 1767 and Prague in carnival of 1768. A notation on a"
"Petrushka (ballet) Petrushka (; ) is a ballet burlesque in four scenes. It was composed in 1910–11 and revised in 1947. Igor Stravinsky composed the music, and, with Alexandre Benois, fashioned the libretto. Michel Fokine choreographed the ballet; Benois designed the sets and costumes. ""Petrushka"" was first performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 13 June 1911. Vaslav Nijinsky portrayed Petrushka with Tamara Karsavina as the Ballerina. Alexander Orlov portrayed the Moor, and Enrico Cecchetti the Charlatan. ""Petrushka"" tells the story of the loves and jealousies of three puppets. The three are brought"
"by Boris Pokrovsky, and designed by Fyodor Fedorovsky. The opera is set in the year 1919 in northern Georgia, and is in five scenes, as follows: The Lezgin Murtaz and the Cossack girl Galina are in love with each other. In the context of the historic rivalry between the Cossacks and the mountain folk of the Caucasus, this has some echo of the story of ""Romeo and Juliet"". A Bolshevik commissar (Ordzhonikidze) visits to persuade the local population to support the Revolution. Murtaz is on the Bolshevik side; he dies heroically stopping a bullet aimed at the Commissar by the"
"30,000 libretti, 100,000 photographs, and 30,000 prints. The modern museum has five rooms which display three centuries of the Paris Opera's history through paintings, costumes, drawings of scenery, and scale models of set designs. Altogether, the museum conserves 8 500 objects. At the top of the stairs which lead to the museum is a bronze by the sculptor which depicts the dancer Alexandre Kalioujny in mid-leap during a performance of Michel Fokine's ballet which is based on the Polovtsian Dances of Borodin's ""Prince Igor"". Visitors are also able to see shelves of books and scores, which are protected by grilles."
"for some time and decided to make Apollo, leader of the muses, its central figure while reducing the number of muses from nine to three. They were Terpsichore, personifying the rhythm of poetry and the eloquence of gesture as embodied in the dance; Calliope, combining poetry and rhythm; and Polyhymnia, representing mime. Stravinsky explained the original title ""Apollon Musagète"" to mean ""Apollo, Leader of the Muses"". Stravinsky wrote for a homogeneous ensemble of bowed string instruments, substituting contrasts in dynamics for the contrasts in timbre he employed in ""Pulcinella"". The ballet takes its inspiration from the grand tradition of French"
"perhaps best known. There have been four main versions of ""The Red Poppy"". The original version of ""The Red Poppy"" was choreographed by Lev Lashchiline (1st and 3rd Acts) and Vasily Tikhomirov (2nd Act). The first performance was on 14 June 1927 in the Bolshoi Theatre (which at the time under Soviet rule had been renamed ""1st People's State Theatre for Opera and Ballet""). The orchestra was led by Yuri Fayer. The ballet's 100th performance in Moscow occurred on 23 December 1928. This production was staged in 1928 and 1930 in Sverdlovsk, and in 1928, 1949, and 1958 in Saratov."
"Vladimir Galouzine Vladimir Vasilyevich Galouzine (, ""Vladimir Galuzin"", ) is a Russian tenor. He has performed in such Russian operas as ""The Queen of Spades"", ""Boris Godunov"" and ""Khovanshchina"" and has performed the lead roles in Italian operas like ""Madama Butterfly"", ""Otello"", ""Tosca"", ""Aida"", and ""Manon Lescaut"". Galouzine was born in Rubtsovsk, Soviet Union, a town near Novosibirsk. In 1981, after graduating from the Novosibirsk Conservatory, he joined the Novosibirsk Opera. From 1990 to 2012 he worked regularly with the Mariinsky Opera under Valery Gergiev. His first leading role with the company was the title role in Verdi’s Otello in"
"in Time of Plague"", and ""The Captain's Daughter""; Tchaikovsky's ""Mazeppa""; Rachmaninoff's one-act operas ""Aleko"" (based on ""The Gypsies"") and ""The Miserly Knight""; Stravinsky's ""Mavra"", and Nápravník's ""Dubrovsky"". Additionally, ballets and cantatas, as well as innumerable songs, have been set to Pushkin's verse (including even his French-language poems, in Isabelle Aboulker's song cycle ""Caprice étrange""). Suppé, Leoncavallo and Malipiero have also based operas on his works. ""The Desire of Glory"", which has been dedicated to Elizaveta Vorontsova, was set to music by David Tukhmanov ), as well as ""Keep Me, Mine Talisman"" – by Alexander Barykin ) and later by Tukhmanov."
"of Alexander III, he was appointed as Director of Imperial Theatres from 3 September 1881. Though a relative unknown, Vsevolozhsky was a vigorous and ‘enchantingly kind’ figure with ‘astonishing insight’. Vsevolovsky was responsible for who brought about the very existence of such world-famous ballets as ""The Sleeping Beauty"" (Tchaikovsky/Petipa) and ""The Nutcracker"" (Tchaikovsky/Ivanov). In 1889, he duly instructed the Imperial Balletmaster Marius Petipa to choreograph a full-length ballet to the story ""The Sleeping Beauty"" for a premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre. He successfully obtained the most famous Russian composer to write the score for it, one Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Vsevolojskoy"
"Stravinsky's ballet ""Orpheus"" (1948) and two operas by Harrison Birtwistle: ""The Mask of Orpheus"" (1973–1984) and ""The Corridor"" (2009). The Bulgarian Rousse State Opera commissioned and performed ""Orpheus: A Masque"" by John Robertson. It debuted in 2015. Rainer Maria Rilke's ""Sonnets to Orpheus"" (1922) are based on the Orpheus myth. Poul Anderson's Hugo Award-winning novelette ""Goat Song"", published in 1972, is a retelling of the story of Orpheus in a science fiction setting. Some feminist interpretations of the myth give Eurydice greater weight. Margaret Atwood's ""Orpheus and Eurydice Cycle"" (1976–86) deals with the myth, and gives Eurydice a more prominent"
"Natalka Poltavka (opera) Natalka Poltavka (English: Natalka from Poltava) is an opera in three acts by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko, based on the play ""Natalka Poltavka"" by Ivan Kotlyarevsky, first performed in 1889. The original version of Kotlyarevsky's play in 1819 contained a number of Ukrainian folk songs which were sung at different points throughout the work. The first known musical adaptation of the play was made by Kharkiv musician A. Barsytsky and was published in 1833. Simultaneously the play starring M. Shchepkin as Vyborny was premiered in Moscow in the 1830s with music arranged by the head violinist"
"her court were forced to flee Moscow. Eventually, Sofia managed to suppress the so-called Khovanshchina (Khovansky affair) with the help of the diplomat Fyodor Shaklovity, who succeeded Khovansky as leader of the Muscovite Streltsy. With the rebellion crushed, the Old Believers committed mass suicide (in the opera, at least). Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov completed, revised, and scored ""Khovanshchina"" in 1881–1882. Because of his extensive cuts and ""recomposition"", Dmitri Shostakovich revised the opera in 1959 based on Mussorgsky's vocal score, and it is the Shostakovich version that is usually performed. In 1913 Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel made their own arrangement at Sergei"
"dance from ""The Brandenburgers of Bohemia"". When ""The Bartered Bride"" returned to the Provisional Theatre in January 1869, this dance was removed, and replaced with a polka. A new scene, with a drinking song for the chorus, was added to act 1, and Mařenka's act 2 aria ""Oh what grief!"" was extended. So far, changes to the original had been of a minor nature, but when the opera reappeared in June 1869 it had been entirely restructured. Although the musical numbers were still linked by dialogue, the first act had been divided in two, to create a three-act opera. Various"
"inspiration not only among fellow composers but also among choreographers and singer-performers. Dancers who have staged ""Pierrot lunaire"" include the Russian-born American Adolph Bolm (1926), the American Glen Tetley (1962), the German (2010) and the French (2011). Also, the avant-garde ‘’Triadic Ballet’’ (1923) by Oskar Schlemmer and Paul Hindemith was inspired by Schoenberg’s song-cycle. The theatrical/operatic possibilities of Schoenberg's score have been realized by at least two major ensembles: the Opera Quotannis, which staged a version of ""Pierrot lunaire"" (with singer Christine Schadeberg) at the New School for Social Research in 1995 and, more recently, the internationally acclaimed contemporary music"
"Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from ""The Love for Three Oranges,"" the suite ""Lieutenant Kijé"", the ballet ""Romeo and Juliet""—from which ""Dance of the Knights"" is taken—and ""Peter and the Wolf."" Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created – excluding juvenilia – seven completed operas,"
"Khovansky. The ""Old Believers"" are Russian Orthodox Christians who have left the state-sponsored church because they disagree with the Patriarch Nikon's reforms; they also challenge the line of succession to the throne and have refused to recognize the Russian Patriarch. Their leader is Dosifey. Fortunately for Czar Peter, these two factions despise each other, as the Streltsy are rowdy degenerates and the Old Believers are pious ascetics. Each of the three principal basses in the opera believes himself to represent the ""true"" Russia against her internal enemies: Prince Ivan Khovansky claims legitimacy by noble birth and military prowess, Dosifey by"